Rails Then, Now, and Next: A Conversation with our Community
summary
Panelists name the concrete wins and pain points: Rails powers 4.2 million users and a solo dev ships web plus iOS and Android apps using Turbo/Hotwire native apps, multiple databases land because someone built it, major apps run off rails main, and an LLM pair-coded Rails prototype actually works. Conversation gives upgrade counts, app scale (hundreds of thousands daily), maintenance gaps in popular gems, and specific calls to contribute and take over libraries.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Welcome
- 2:30Why the name Ruby on Rails
- 4:13Favorite Rails applications
- 8:47Joining Rails
- 21:42Community evolution
- 25:15Rails excitement
- 30:52Rails future and AI
- 41:04Rails sustainability
- 47:10Fundraising and closing
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